Rev. Scot Hull
The Reverend SCOT HULL
Office Hours: By Appointment
Email: minister@uusg.org
Phone: 630-232-2350 ext 103
The Reverend Scot Hull is a Minister in the Unitarian Universalist tradition. Born in Washington, DC, he was raised in the Maryland suburbs in a family of government bureaucrats. His first church experiences were at Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church in Bethesda — as the story goes, this was the only church his Quaker grandfather and Methodist grandmother could agree on.
Rev. Scot attended the University of Maryland in College Park, where he was so taken with “Life’s Big Questions” that he decided to pursue a Ph.D. in Philosophy. Life (and debt) had other plans, and he went off to find his way in the blooming and booming world of information technology, Internet infrastructure, and the growing World Wide Web.
Over the next 20 years, Rev. Scot became a public speaker and technology evangelist in the field of Internet security, where he created and developed start-up businesses, led cross-functional organizations in large and small companies, wrote a book (and a lot of articles), taught seminars, and coached sales professionals and IT executives on how to lead and succeed.
After a long period of discernment, Rev. Scot left this career to attend Meadville-Lombard Theological School (a Unitarian Universalist seminary in the Chicago Theological School consortium) to pursue lifelong interests in comparative religion, theology, and Buddhist philosophy — a return to those “Big Questions”. It was on this path that he began to imagine a second career, this time in professional pastoral ministry. He was welcomed into Ministerial Fellowship by the Unitarian Universalist Association in September of 2019 and Ordained to the Ministry in February of 2020.
Aside from collecting books about religion and theology, Rev. Scot loves reading science fiction and fantasy novels and has famously bad taste in movies (a judgment that he cheerfully disputes). As a way to “practice writing”, he started a blog in 2009, focusing on a hobby his older brother used to pursue back in the 1980’s: the practical mystery of hi-fi stereo systems. Over the next decade, Rev. Scot turned his hobby into a full-time media outlet that now reaches millions of readers a year, worldwide.
In a world pressured by the global climate change, the rise of authoritarianism, and bedeviled by oppressions of race, class, sex/gender, Rev. Scot increasingly appreciates pragmatic and practical solutions that improve lives. He looks to history, science, and literature for inspiration on how to engage, how to create meaning, and how to reimagine a better future, and he views “justice work” as one of the expressions of his faith.
When it comes to belief, Rev. Scot identifies as a Religious Humanist; he also draws significant inspiration from the Buddhist, Christian, and Jewish traditions. His vision of church is “theologically inclusive” of and informed by those sources.
“We all come from a common source and we are all heading toward a common destiny. In the time we’ve been given, we can choose to do so much more than merely survive. The challenge we have today, as human beings, is how do we thrive?”